Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-20
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CHEERED TO THE ECHO. 0'Brien Heartily Received
 At Ottawa. WAR ON THE TRADES UNIONS. Employers Banding Against
 Labor Tyranny. FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN. Costly Striking For Knights
 Of Labor.
FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN.
O,RRIEN GOES TO OTTAw

A Hearty RecepLtOh dHO AhO uSan0 0a
 Listen to His Scathing Denuncfatien
 of Lord Lansdowne.
 TORONTO, May 19.-When Editor O'Brien
 and Tenant Kilbride arrived at the railroad
 station this morning on their way to Ottawa
 they found 8 crowd of one hundred persons
 waiting for them Mir. O'Brien stepped upon the platform of parlor car and delivered a brief speech. When he commenced to speak he was greeted with mingled groans and cheers He said: "Citizens of Toronto and brethren in the cause of free speech and of Ireland-I cannot depart without expressing my thanks to you for the right noble recep- ton you have accorded me. As for the occur renee of last night I have not the slightest doubt that it was deliberate attempt to mur der melted by those whose position in your city ought to have taught them better. I shall not again refer to it except to say came to Toronto not to defy them, not to dare them, but at the same time not to fear them. It was 8 cowardly attempt to murder me and am willing to leave the verdict as between them and me to the fair judgment of the fair minded citizens of Toronto. Despite the ex- pleasant impressions of Toronto. We have triumphed. Our cause is just and the lives of hundreds of poor Irish1nen depend upon the result of our mission among you. God bless you." He then disappeared within the car followed by cheers and groans.
 Other speeches followed and resolutions of sympathy for O'Brien and his cause were adopted. When MT. O'Brien and his friends reached the hotel at II o'clock they were given a banquet and made other speeches. A great crowd outside the hotel cheered for O'Brien, America and the stars and stripes. When man tried to groan for O'Brien a Boston pugilist named Connolly knocked him down. Two policemen took Connolly to jail. After O'Brien's friends had gone home the and sang "Gsd Save the Queen" and "Weu hang O'Briec to a sour apple tree," but they soon tired of their rowdyism.
 OTTAWA, May 19.-The Ottawa people took time by the forelock. A train carrying a deputation composed of the most preni nent members of the citizens committee and of the National league went out to Moberly, 8 distance of one hundred and seyenty-fye miles, and welcomed Mir. O'Brien and party. When the train slowed up at the Grand Union station on Queen street, Ottawa, at 5:3O o'clock an immense. crowd had assem- bled. The throng set up a tremendous cheering as MT. O'Brien stepped on to the platform, and this enthusiasm was mani tested again and again. On leaving in carriages to the Russell House. i" AS an instance" said Committeeman Egyl- san, stof how far reaching the Dublin Castle influence is, two members of our committee, Messrs. Storrs and Alexander Mcdonald, waited upon United States Consul Hotchkiss and asked the loan of the American national ensign with which to help decorate the hall, but the consul refused to loan it." One man at the depot attempted to cheer for Lans- downe, but there was no response. On the contrary he came near being trampled to death by the infuriated crowd. It was regular procession as the party moved up through the city in long line of sixty car Canadians and Protestant citizens as well tative Irishmen in the city. When O'Brien entered the rotunda of the hotel an attempt was made by some persons in the surging throng to cheer the Queen, but the storm of cheers for O'Brien and groans for Lansdowne rose above all else. At the Royal rink on Slater street, where O'Brien was to speak, five thousand persons were packed. Large pictures of Gladstone and Parnell were placed in front of the platform with an Irish, American and Canadian flag and the motto in large green letters: "God Save Ireland" :" In one corner of the hall was massed solid body of young students from Ottawa college, three hundred in number, who shouted in chorus "O-B-RI-E-N' amid thunders of applause from all parts of the house. Chief McNeity of the police force said to MT, Eggleson as he entered the hall that two suspicious looking men were seen emerging from the vaults beneath the building, but on a search being made no dynamite bombs were found. The crowds around the hall sang "God Save the Queen," but they got tired early in the evening. On the platform were several Catholic priests and other prominent men. When O'Brien stepped up- on the platform the throng rose and cheered him enthusiastically. Professor H. J. Frow- ley of Ottawa college read an address of wei come Then two telegrams, one from Arch other from Chicago Knights of Labor, both expressing sympathy for Editor O'Brien were read and the audience went wild again. ssBravo Chicago!" ''Three cheers for Edi- tor O'Brieni" ''Three cheers for the star s and stripesl" and similar express sions d followed If again aIe,.aan1 and again; and MT. J. N. Dawling, president of St. Patrick's association, introduced MT. O'Brien. who spoke as follows:
 am proud to learn that am. believe, the first representative of the Irish people who has ever here at the seat and center of Canadian independ
 ence cannot help thinking if like you we have 2 not be for us to travel across the world to
 worry you with the sorrows and sufferingS Of our
 poor people and to subject you to so crucial test
 of the sincerity of your sympathy with Ire land. (Appause9 Our visit here is matter of life and death for the five hundred unhappy doomed to eviction and destruction. (Groans) I notions of Canadan.fair play very different from those ertained by Lord Lansdowne's admirers in speak in heated or exage erated language of what occurred in Toronto last night: CHsses3 do not end of Canada to-day whose chee did not burn with shame to read of the gentleman who shook explan, II am a Canadian, but not a blackguard' I believe him. Prolonged app!ausel I believe who will be just as eager he to repudiata the murderous and cowardly work which was organized
 downe's friends, and I might almost say under
 Lord Lansdowne's windows. (Hisses and cries of
 of the Controversy between Lord Lansdowne and
 ourselves have made specific 6 and and s terrible M
 which if untrue would wither us with disgrace
 They are charges of barbarity and injustice. Ii
 on the Canadian name if you submit without pro
 test to be governed by such man; To these
 swer They believe every generous instinct of Can
 adian freedom and fair play will revolt at the idea
 urder @ bR atteps aaGn to strange voices
 and to strangle us to death in the strec.5
 ible for the conduct of his friends in Toron
 He has written public letter euloglzlng andten
 speeches at that meeting were every bit as brutal
 and unuanly as the paving stones that followed
 them do not say Lord Lansdowne realized the
 consequences of his visit to Toronto and of ms rab
 ble-rousing words to the Orangemen put II the con
 duct of lord lieutenant of Ireland were arraigneo
 all the world would know what to think II he went
 down to Belfast on the eve of his opponent
 arrival there and if he wrote letters oi thanks to the rioters of the Shankhil road fol
 stirring up the blackest depths of prejudice
 and bigotry to his cause Ioqd applause.
 am sorry to have to say it. but believe ii Lorc Lansdowne had himself headed the mob he could
 not have taken more effectual means to enlist the force of the Orangemen of Toronto under his ban
 ner (groansl. do not envy Lord Lansdowne his feelings when he learned last night that the men who had been dragging his carriage through the
 streets of Toronto in triumph attacked, thousands of them four unarmed men (cries or shame 0Ont of them a citizen of the United States and repre- Sentative of the great and powerful press of New York GA voice; 'Three cheers for the New York press.f Tremendous cheering again and again re newed.l They set upon us as we were Strol l1nt peacefully through the streets alone and made most determined and dastardly attempt 10 kil cannot believe that in the full sight or the world the Canadian people will submit to such an outrag upon their liberty without some protest W hch VII proclaim to tell the earth that 1T lord LansdoWn is to remain in Canada and to defend himself must not be by the aid of advocates who woul stone and trample man to death
 The vast audience then arose and sanI "God Save Ireland" Dennis Kilbride, tn | eyicted tenant, also spoke and created a pro found impression by the narrowing picture l which he drew of scenes at evietions on LOT \ ALansdowne's estate.